The most useful websites for parent coaches:

Dave Cisar’s Winning Youth Football: Coach Dave Cisar has enjoyed huge success and has developed a great system – Includes practice plans, playbooks, conditioning and safety strategies, blog. winningyouthfootball.com

JBMThinks – Sports Parenting – Character Building in Youth Sports: Janis Meredith is a sports mom/wife of 3 athletes and a husband sports coach for 28 years. Blog, ebooks, and tips on how to thrive as a youth sports parent. jbmthinks.com

Positive Coaching Alliance’s Coaching Tools: This site has some really good tools, such as their double-goal coaching technique and a parent-meeting agenda. positivecoach.org

Hudl Team Video/Film – Hudl offers video services to upload your team’s game or practice film. You can organize plays, restrict who has access to different parts of the video. A great tool to teach your players through showing them on film what they are doing right and what they can improve on. http://www.hudl.com/

Break Through Basketball: This is a really good basketball site that has lots of drills, videos, ebooks – breakthroughbasketball.com

Best Coaching Books for parent coaches:

InsideOut Coaching by Joe Ehrmann and Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx and Joe Ehrmann – Great lessons on teamwork and achieving maximum results while learning lessons in life.

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey – Pete Carroll uses this all the time to instill mental toughness.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck – Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success.

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How by Daniel Coyle – Particularly the section on Deep Practice–Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.

Tharp & Gallimore’s ‘John Wooden’s What a Coach can Teach a Teacher’ – Tharp & Gallimore observed Wooden’s practices in 1974-1975 season and recorded 2,326 acts of teaching and categorized them into 10 different categories. Praises were surprisingly low. Fascinating study ever coach should read (it’s only 4 pages long.)

Grit by Dr. Angela Duckworth – In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.”

They Call Me Coach by John Wooden – Coach Wooden shares his philosphies, successes, and stories of great players and great teams.

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